Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People 1808-1908, Volume 3

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S. J. Clarke publishing Company, 1908 - Kansas City (Mo.)
 

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Page 576 - Jacobus exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He...
Page 508 - ... ready to meet any obligation of life with the confidence and courage that come of conscious personal ability, right conception of things and an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human activities.
Page 306 - Unflagging application and intuitive wisdom and, a determination to fully utilize the means at hand, are the concomitants which insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which stands as the stern conservator of Justice, and it is one into which none should enter without a recognition of the obstacles to be overcome and the battles to be won, for success does not perch on the...
Page 596 - Endowed by nature with a sound judgment, and an accurate, discriminating mind, he feared not that laborious attention which made him perfectly master of those subjects, in all their relations, on which he was to decide ; and this essential quality was guided by an unvarying sense of moral right, which would tolerate the employment only of those means that would bear the most rigid examination ; by a fairness of intention...
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Page 284 - Some years since he retired from active practice, but few lawyers have made a more lasting impression upon the bar of the state, both for legal ability of a high order and for the individuality of a personal character, which impresses itself upon a community.

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